The U.S. has grown into a hostile place where special interest groups and protectionism rule. Financial Post Once the housing market recovers in the US, they may want to think twice about challenging Canadian lumber industry practices and attempting to place duties...
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Captive Customer, Captive Supplier – Captive Government?
The discussion and debate related to usage-based billing of broadband communications essentially comes down to one problem. Residential customers in Canada for the most part are captive customer of one, two or three alternative service providers due to the nature of their connection from the residence to the network.
What most people forget is those connections, whether they be twisted pair copper cables or coaxial CATV cables, were deployed under a regulated monopoly regime mandated and enforced by public policy. When deregulation and competition was introduced into those sectors, the process did not include un-bundling that last mile link so that open and vigorous competition could emerge for the demand of residential customers.
KFC > Chairman Mao
Apparently, KFC is absolutely booming in China. They love the stuff over there. The most amazing line from this story : In China, KFC has achieved such dominance over McDonald’s and local rivals that Colonel Harland Sanders’s image is a far more common sight in many...
No Surprise- Government “Nagging” Hasn’t Boosted Productivity
Now, I for one am not baffled that government “nagging” hasn’t resulted in private sector productivity gains!
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Timeless Wisdom – The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...
Canada’s National Hysteria in the 21st Century
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In...
One Dollar?
A case for eliminating the Canadian dollar.
MAI Good For Canada
The major provisions of the Multilateral Agreement of Investment need no defence. They are simply common sense rules of fairness.